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India: A Fleet of BLS Vehicles to Replace 108 Ambulances

Visakhapatnam: In a step towards providing quality emergency care services, the State Government is replacing 200 ambulances across the State with Basic Life Support (BLS) vehicles.\r\nWith GVK-Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) 108 Ambulance Service being the nodal agency to operate emergency services, the initiative has been taken up under the public-private partnership mode with the support of the Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare. Of the total 439 ambulances, 200 will be replaced with BLS vehicles.

India: Industrial Clusters to Get Emergency Response Centres

Visakhapatnam: The factories department is proposing to establish industrial emergency response centres in industrial clusters with the support of managements. The aim of this move is to help in monitoring safety compliance in factories, said director of factories G Bala Kishore. He said these centres can also be used for interactive meetings and training programmes and to discuss issues related to occupation safety, health and accidents.

India: Government Invokes Emergency Power to Prevent Stent Shortage

New Delhi: Moving to ensure there is no shortage of stents due to price control, the government has invoked an emergency provision making it mandatory for manufacturers to maintain production and supply of coronary stents at previous levels for at least six months.\r\nStent makers and importers have also been directed to submit a weekly report on stents production and distribution to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), which regulates prices of drugs and medical devices.

India: Emergency Medical Centres to be set up in more Stations

Tiruchirappalli: Having established free emergency medical care centres in Tiruchi and Thanjavur railway junctions, the Southern Railway plans to extend the facility to more stations in Tiruchi division.\r\nThe railway authorities have identified 12 stations and have invited expression of interest for construction and maintenance of the facilities for a period of one year from reputed hospitals and medical care centres.

Mumbai: In an astonishing breakthrough which can be considered a boon for the healthcare industry, a team of doctors and scientists at the Quackdoc Multipseciality hospital have invented a self diagnosing and self-reporting Ultrasonography (USG) machine, much to the relief of doctors worldwide, more so for the surgeons and emergency physicians.\r\nIn an exclusive interview with the Quack doses, Dr Samrat, the mastermind of the whole project said, “The inspiration for the machine was a recent full-blown catfight between our senior Surgeon Dr Sadita (name changed) and our radiologist Dr Anvita (name changed), 2 friends who were like Krish